Xinxin Li, associate professor of OPIM and Ackerman Scholar, was one of only two recipients of the Best Reviewer Award for 2013 from Information Systems Research (ISR).

Neag School of Education

Suzanne Wilson, professor of curriculum and instruction, was elected as a new member to the National Academy of Education (NAE). The current members of this prestigious organization are the preeminent research scholars in the field of education. She was also commissioned by NAE to write a paper on “Recent Developments in STEM Education Relevant to the Qualities of Teacher Preparation Programs.”

Peter Willett, professor of electrical & computer engineering, is now Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. SP Letters receives approximately 1,700 submissions a year and accepts between 15 percent and 20 percent.

School of Fine Arts

Scott Ripley, associate professor of dramatic arts, received funding through the UConn Guest Professorship Program to bring international artist Carlos García Estévez to campus. Estévez is an actor, stage director, theater researcher, and pedagogue. Artistic director of Manifesto Poetico (International Laboratory of Theatre Research), Estévez founded and created the international theatre company Teatro Punto (1998-2013). Since 2012, he has been a guest teacher at the Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement in Paris.

Jacqueline McGrath, professor of nursing, has been appointed as the new co-editor of Advances in Neonatal Care (ANC), the official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. McGrath is the associate dean for research and scholarship in the School of Nursing, as well as the director of nursing research at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. McGrath has served on ANC’s Editorial Board since 2000, and has been editor of the Evidence-Based Practice Briefs Section since 2010. She was also the guest editor for ANC’s Developmental Care Supplement in 2012.

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Nursing Cheryl Beck‘s textbook was awarded third place in the nursing research category for 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards: Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice, by Denise F. Polit and Cheryl Tatano Beck (8th edition, 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins).

Institute for Student Success

Due to the successful track record of the Student Support Services (SSS) program, the Connecticut Office of Higher Education doubled the Center for Academic Programs’ previous grant award through the Connecticut College Access and Success program: a $200,000 award was received to provide support for 50 incoming students through the SSS program.